1. Absinthe: Problem In Itself, Or Is It Alcohol In General That Is The Problem?
... between classes there have also existed a hierarchy in alcohol and its social consumptions. In the case of the Gin Panic it was viewed, by the higher classes, as ruining the social structure of their communities. Eventually, the social panic becomes a political problem and the governments have ... truth of the matter is that the illness of Vincent van Gogh was certainly intensified by his excessive drinking of the Absinthe. It is thought today that Van Gogh probably had severe intermittent porphyria. This agrees with the documented porphyrogenicity of the terpenoids in absinthe as well a...
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